Hell is not a place but a condition in which a person
experiences separation from loving communion with God. God made us to be
fulfilled only when we are lovingly united with God and other God-lovers.
Anyone who lives outside this loving fellowship will suffer as a result. The
biblical pictures of hell are metaphorical ways of portraying this unhappy
condition. Since we are embodied souls, we experience our separation from
loving communion with God in physical and mental ways. So the biblical imagery,
though metaphorical, is fitting, and dramatizes the reality of living apart
from loving communion with God.
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